Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007 and 2010. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: Quickly Transposing Cells.
You probably know the feeling—you start creating a worksheet, get a good way into it, and realize that you should have made your columns into rows and your rows into columns. In other words, you want to turn your data by 90 degrees and continue working with the sheet.
Fortunately, Excel provides an easy way to accomplish this very task. In Excel's terminology, this process is known as transposing data. To transpose your data, follow these steps:
Notice that in step 2 you must use the copy command (Ctrl+C) rather than the cut command (Ctrl+X). This is because you can't choose Paste Special from the Edit menu when you cut information. For this reason, you may want to copy information from one worksheet (steps 1 and 2) and paste it into another (steps 3 through 5). You can play with this method of pasting and select the method that is best for you.
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2016-12-04 22:30:48
David
I knew that, but I went a long time before I discovered the transpose function which does the same thing but means if you use the same data in rows in one place and columns in another you only have to update the data in one place.
What I sometimes find myself wanting to do is present the transposed data in the reverse order. Is there a way to do that easily?
2016-05-16 19:24:03
Thomson
If you will need to transpose similar data a lot (e.g. Daily/Weekly/Monthly report) , you can setup a PowerQuery for this.
Just load it into Power Query -> Transform -> Transpose.
The Pro is you can just refresh the queue if data always located in same location.
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